joining us now is david scoutville. david, first of all, how do you know the 1 billionth tourist is out there today and where might he or she arrive? >> it's impossible to tell where that personal is going to arrive. but we've calculated very precisely today is the day that ta 1 billionth tourist is going to cross an international border. as you said in your introduction, there's auto huge increase since travel started. only four years ago, that figure was 445 million. so that figure is growing quickly. >> one of the questions, though, become what are the tourism hot spots? are we seeing a shift to where people are going, how they're traveling? what is the outlook for 2013, in your view? >> 2012 will finish at a growth about 2.12%. as we go into 2013, it will be about the same sort of growth rate. most of the growth is coming in asia. europe is still by far the biggest inbound and outbound market. most of the future growth is coming out of china. it is a market which is exploding. i think in 2010, they had 58 million pe